Specialist School Nurse

1 month ago

Romford, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

The SE Essex MHST team are advertising for X2 Qualified EMHP's or CWP's.

The post holder's will be registered with the BABCP or BPS or are in the process of registering. The post holder's will work as part of an MHST delivering, under supervision, high-quality, brief outcome focused evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties in and around schools. The post holder's will be responsible for delivering clinical interventions within the MHST and will receive clinical supervision from a senior psychological practitioner. To routinely measure clinical outcomes. Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community through evidenced based clinical interventions. To undertake initial school based and community-based assessments and to deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties. Providing a direct service to children and young people and their families, in an accessible and less stigmatizing

Main duties of the job

Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people. Work in partnership with children, young people, and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.  Support and empower children, young people, and families to make informed choices about the intervention. Always operate from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity. Undertakes accurate assessment of risk to self and others. Through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope.  Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.  Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to CYP in treatment, where appropriate. To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies. To provide patients and relatives with information and education. To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. Working in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties. Work in partnership with children, young people, and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes and activity. Support and empower children, young people, and families to make informed choices about the intervention. Always operate from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity. Undertakes accurate assessment of risk to self and others. Through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope, or more severe ensuring adherence to other relevant elements of service delivery. Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face or by telephone. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to CYP in treatment, where appropriate. To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies. To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life. To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions. Practitioners will be guided by the professional code of conduct. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Successful completion of the HEE/NHSE commissioned 1yr Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course/Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner course. Appropriate registration with either the BABCP or BPS as a low intensity practitioner. NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy

Trust Values

Essential criteria

Demonstration of Trust values

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with children and young people, and their families Experience of working and liaising with a variety of agencies and stakeholders Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people, or their families ( CBT, solution focused brief therapy) Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health intervention with children and families

Knowledge

Essential criteria

An awareness of NHS priorities Knowledge of safeguarding issues

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of educational environments

Skills

Essential criteria

Basic awareness of IT and IT skills Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence Excellent oral and written communication skills

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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